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In the philosophy of language and metaphysics, metasemantics is the study of the foundations of natural language semantics (the philosophical study of meaning).cite-ref-1[1]cite-ref-2[2]cite-ref-3[3] Metasemantics searches for "the proper understanding of compositionality, the object of truth-conditional analysis, metaphysics of reference, as well as, and most importantly, the scope of semantic theory itself"cite-ref-4[4] and asks "how it is that expressions become endowed with their semantic significance".cite-ref-5[5]

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• Metasyntax

• Metapragmatics

cite-note-11. ↑ Alexis Burgess, Brett Sherman (eds.), Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning, Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 29 n. 13.

cite-note-22. ↑ "Review of Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

cite-note-33. ↑ Stainton, Robert J. Philosophical Perspectives on Language. Peterborough, Ont., Broadview Press, 1996, p. 36.

cite-note-44. ↑ Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Meaning in Linguistic Interaction: Semantics, Metasemantics, Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press, 2016, p. viii.

cite-note-55. ↑ Ori Simchen, Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness, Oxford University Press, 2017, p. xiii.